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Yes. The ancient kingdom and the modern province of Macedonia, was and is situated on the northern Greek peninsula.
The founders identified as Greeks from Argos in the Peloponnese.
There is an unbroken record of people identifying as Macedonians with a Greek ethnic, linguistic and cultural identity living on the northern Greek peninsula from ancient till modern times.
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Who owns ancient Macedonia?
Ancient Macedonia which today is the province of Macedonia on the northern Greek peninsula, is a historical, geographic, cultural and ethnic identity of Greece.
Does Macedonia still exist?
Yes.Ancient Macedonia was a Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula.Modern Macedonia is a Greek province on the northern Greek peninsula.There is an unbroken record of people identifying as Macedonians with a Greek ethnic linguistic and cultural identity, continuously inhabiting the land of historical Macedonia from the present to ancient times.
Where is new Macedonia?
Ancient Macedonia was a Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula. Modern Macedonia is a Greek province on the northern Greek peninsula. There is an unrelated Slavic country north of the historical Macedonia with a mixed ethnic identity that self identifies by the name "Macedonia" after the break up of Yugoslavia and is officially recognized for all international purposes by the name "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia".
What modern country would ancient Macedonia be in today?
The ancient Kingdom of Macedonia was in the northern Greek peninsula.The modern province of Macedonia is in the northern Greek peninsula.There is an unbroken record of people identifying as Macedonians with a Greek ethnic linguistic and cultural identity, continuously inhabiting the land of historical Macedonia from the present to ancient times.
What is the difference between historical Macedonia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia?
Macedonia was an ancient Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula of Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greece that is now a northern province of the Hellenic (Greek) Republic. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is a Slavic Republic in the southern Balkans, with a mixed ethnic identity that was founded after the break up of communist Yugoslavia in 1991.
What is Today's name for historical Macedonia?
Ancient Macedonia was a Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula. Modern Macedonia is a Greek province on the northern Greek peninsula. There has been an unbroken record of people identifying as Macedonians with a Greek ethnic, linguistic and cultural identity from ancient till modern times. Note: The country self identifying as "Republic of Macedonia" is a newly founded Slavic country north of historical Macedonia on the land that was once the lands of the kingdoms of ancient Paeonia/Dardania. It is inhabited by Slavic people who invaded in the 6th century AD and is unrelated to the historical Macedonia on the northern Greek peninsula.
Where is Macedonia on a map?
Historical Macedonia was an ancient Greek kingdom in the northern Greek peninsula that is today a modern province in the northern Greek peninsula of the Hellenic (Greek) Republic. The unrelated Republic of Macedonia is a small independent republic of the Former Yugoslavia in the southern Balkans, whose land is synonymous with ancient Paeonia/Dardania. Greece is to the south, Serbia to the north, Albania to the west and Bulgaria to the east.
What is greater Macedonia?
The Great idea concept is an expansionist agenda propagated by the government and nationalists of the Former Yugoslav Republic. It suggests that ancient Macedonia on the northern Greek peninsula was a sovereign state allegedly inhabited by an "Macedonian' ethnic identity that was attacked by an allied force of Greeks, Serbians and Bulgarians. The area that makes up this 'Greater Macedonia' incorporates the historical Macedonia of Greece, and parts of Albania and Bulgaria into the territory that is now the Former Yugoslav Republic. This concept has no basis in ethnic, historical or geographic reality. Historical Macedonia was an ancient Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula that today is a Greek province on the northern Greek peninsula. Even under foreign occupation which saw the name "Macedonia" applied to a larger administrative area that stretched beyond the boundaries of historical Macedonia, the majority of the FYROM still remained outside.
What is the name of modern Macedonia?
Ancient Macedonia was a Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula. Modern Macedonia is a Greek province on the northern Greek peninsula. It's name in northern Greece, was and is, Macedonia.
Is Alexander the Great Greek or Persian?
Alexander the Great was a Greek from Macedonia as Leonidas was a Greek from Sparta as Pericles was a Greek from Athens. Alexander's father was Philip II of Macedonia and his mother the Mollosian princess from Epirus. Macedonia or Macedon (Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía; was an ancient Greek in the northern Greek peninsula of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. Alexander belonged to the Argead dynasty an ancient Greek royal house who were the founders and the ruling dynasty of Macedon from about 700 to 310 BCE. Their tradition, as described in ancient Greek historiography, traced their origins to Argos, in southern Greece, hence the name Argeads or Argives.
What country was formerly known as Macedonia?
Greece. Ancient Macedonia was a Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula. Modern Macedonia is a Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula.
What is the old name of the capital of Macedonia?
Ancient Aegae (Modern Vergina) was the first capital of Macedonia. It was subsequently moved to Pella. Under Roman occupation, the capital was moved to Thessaloniki. When Macedonia was liberated in 1912 from the Ottoman occupation Thessaloniki was retained as the capital.
